Security News > 2021 > June
Technical certifications are increasingly in demand with 87% of IT employees possessing at least one and 40% pursuing their next. According to Questionmark, certification bodies must ensure they can quickly deliver, and robustly assess, their programs to meet new levels of demand.
According to the findings, 63% of respondents say it is important or very important to protect employee privacy in the workforce, but only 34% of organizations are effective or very effective in doing so. The research also found that most organizations have a difficult time balancing workforce privacy with the growing perceptions around the need to monitor employee engagement and internal risk, given the shift to remote work.
Small and medium-sized enterprises seem to be strongly positioned in the data protection sector, according to a recent survey of 600 German, French and British executives conducted by Usercentrics and Siinda, in cooperation with the research institute Innofact. The survey results place the British firms at the top of the ranking, with 76.5% of executives agreeing that their company has up-to-date data protections, followed by Germany with 68% and France with 61%. Data protection officers as a privacy necessity.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could prevent a ransomware attack from occurring in the first place? DMARC can make this seemingly impossible claim a possibility for domain owners! DMARC is also known as the first line of defense against Ransomware.
Tufin released Tufin Rule Lifecycle Management App, the latest addition to the Tufin Marketplace. The new app simplifies and manages the rule review and certification process by automatically identifying expiring or expired rules and mapping them to their owners, enabling a simple recertification or decertification of rules.
Later this year or early next, Windows 11 will begin rolling out to new and existing devices with a range of new features and major design improvements. Windows 11 is technically Windows 10 with rounded corners, a new modern design and Fluent icons.
Later this year or early next, Windows 11 will begin rolling out to new and existing devices with a range of new features and major design improvements. Windows 11 is technically Windows 10 with rounded corners, a new modern design and Fluent icons.
VisibleRisk announced the appointment of three new executives to its leadership team. Vice President of Industry Solutions Stephanie Snyder Frenier is a cyber risk and insurance subject matter expert who comes to VisibleRisk from Aon's Cyber Solutions practice, where, as SVP, Commercial Strategy Leader, she linked Aon's products and business strategy with insurance market and cyber risk trends to drive marketing and sales.
A Ukrainian national and a mid-level supervisor of the hacking group known as FIN7 has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role as a "Pen tester" and perpetuating a criminal scheme that enabled the gang to compromise millions of customers debit and credit cards. FIN7, also called Anunak, Carbanak Group, and the Navigator Group, is said to have engaged in a sophisticated malware campaign at least since 2015 targeting restaurant, gambling, and hospitality industries in the U.S. to plunder credit and debit card numbers that were then used or sold for profit on underground forums.
A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros in illegal profits. Dubbed "Crackonosh," the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to disable antivirus programs installed in the machine and install a coin miner package called XMRig for stealthily exploiting the infected host's resources to mine Monero.